Bakugo ran into Kirishima and the others on the way to school and ended up walking with them the rest of the way. “How are you feeling?” Kirishima asks, glancing over at Bakugo.

“What do you mean?” He asks, narrowing his eyes. Kirishima couldn't know about his mother, could he?

“Well you just got out of the hospital just a few days ago, didn't you? How are you feeling?”

“Oh,” he says, blinking. “I'm feeling fine. What about you?”

“I'm doing ok, wrapping my wounds hurts because I'm touching them but that's about it,” he says, not wanting to tell anyone about the fact that he'd been having nightmares every night. “Will you eat lunch with us today?”

“I guess,” he shrugs, he didn't have a reason to say no since he actually has a way to eat now.

“Will you stay the whole time?” Sero asks, looking up from his conversation with Candy.

“Sure,” he replies.

“Yay!” Mina exclaims loudly causing Bakugo to wince slightly. She looked over at him and frowned when she caught his small wince, is everything ok with him? Is he the one that doesn't like loud noises? But then, how does his quirk affect him? His explosions are kinda loud. Mina didn't say anything to anyone since everyone's been saying something whenever she mentions anything about anyone but she was still curious.

The group got to school and made their way to their classroom. Upon entering, they saw that Midoriya, Ururaka, and Iida were already in their seats and looked like they'd been there for a while.

“You three are early,” Denki comments, sitting down in his seat.

“Being early means you'll never be late,” Iida says, while hand chopping the air.

“I just like getting up early,” Ururaka explains.

Midoriya however didn't answer them as he doddled in his notebook. Bakugo looked towards Midoriya and frowned, he wasn't one to ignore others, “oi, nerd!”

Once again though, Midoriya ignored Bakugo and everyone else, not even bothering to spare him a glance.

“He's been like this all morning,” Ururaka explains, “he hasn't talked to anyone today.”

Bakugo thought about sending him the signal to talk to make sure he was ok but at the same time, he told Midoriya to stay away from him. He sighed and sat down in his seat, deciding to just let it go for now.

The rest of the class filters in over the next ten minutes with their teacher being the last one to arrive. “Morning, I'm glad to see everyone is back. However, I'm not going to be going easy on anyone, we're jumping straight in.” Aizawa says, looking around the room. “Get dressed in your training uniforms and meet me in the gym.”

Everyone looks around the room knowing this was the first time they'd see everyone fighting. They all stood up and grabbed their uniforms before heading towards the gym where they could change.

The girls went into their changing room to change. Mina glanced around at the others before changing as quickly as possible. She knew the girls wouldn't ask about her scars since they already knew what happened but she still didn't want them to stare.

Jiro changed and walked over to Mina, “are you ok? You changed pretty fast.”

“Yeah, I just didn't want anyone to stare,” Mina explains.

“I don't think anyone would have stared,” Jiro says, putting a hand on her shoulder.

“I don't know,” Mina shrugs as she looks around the locker room, seeing how all the girls were chatting and laughing, she smiled.

“Come on, let's head out,” Jiro says, leading her out of the locker room.

Momo walked over to Ururaka with a smirk, “so, I've seen you hanging out with Iida outside of school, “are you two a thing?”

“W-what? No! It's been like a couple of weeks!” She exclaims, blushing.

“Well then, do you like him?” She asks, wiggling her brows

“Yeah,” she says, her face going even redder. “You can't tell him though. I don't know if he also likes me.”

“He's offered to walk you to work and he hangs out with you outside of school, I think he likes you back.”

“I still think I should give it some time,” Ururaka says, as she puts her clothes in her locker.

“You got this,” she says, heading out of the locker room with Ururaka following behind. The rest of the girls also finish changing and head out to see that they were the first ones done.

All of the boys start changing except for Bakugo, Todoroki, and Midoriya. All three of them had wounds or scars that they didn't feel like explaining even if it was for different reasons.

Kirishima and Sero, whose wounds are still healing from the league of villains, didn't really have any issues changing since everyone knew about what happened.

The rest of the boys changed without a second thought, glancing at the three that weren't changing, Iida quirks a brow, “is something wrong with you three?”

“No, nothing's wrong, we’ll change last,” Midoriya says, looking at the others with a fake smile, “don't worry.”

“Mr. Aizawa won't like it if we're late,” Iida says, hand chopping the air.

“We won't be late, don't worry,” Bakugo grumbles. “Now stop being extras and leave!”

Kirishima looked at Bakugo, “what's wrong? Are you hiding something?”

Bakugo doesn't answer him and instead glares, “the three of us obviously want to change in peace, we won't even be changing in front of each other. If you leave now, we’ll be out in about five minutes.”

The boys all roll their eyes but file out of the room anyways, except Kirishima who sighed, “you know, none of us would judge any of you for anything,” he says, his eyes never leaving Bakugo.

“I'm not comfortable in front of others,” Todoroki says, finally speaking up.

“Alright then,” Kiri says, heading out of the changing room.

Todoroki looks at the other two, “so…how do we change without each other seeing?”

“Two of us can turn around while one of us changes,” Midoriya suggests.

“I'd be ok with that,” Bakugo nods. “You can change first Icy Hot.”

“That's not my name,” Todoroki frowns as he grabs his clothes, “turn around.”

Both Bakugo and Midoyia turn around while Todoroki changes. Midoriya went to sit down on a bench and sneaked a glance at Bakugo who was hanging out by the wall.

Todoroki changes quickly before clearing his throat. “Thank you for understanding, I'll be going now,” he says, leaving the locker room. Midoriya turns to face Bakugo, “you can go next.”

Bakugo just grunts as he grabs his training uniform. “Is it bad?” Midoriya asks.

Bakugo didn't answer and instead asked the question that's been weighing on his mind, “what do you have to hide? The league didn't leave any physical wounds on you.”

Midoriya looks away, not answering that question and just turns around, “just hurry up and change, ok? We can't take much longer.”

Bakugo frowns but shakes his head, and changes quickly, “hurry up nerd,” is all he says before leaving the locker room.

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Midoriya was grateful that he was the last one in the room. He took his clothes off and stared at the scars on his arm. He thinks about adding more every day lately but hasn't in a while. Midoriya does his best not to add any to it but it gets harder and harder every day. Why does it hurt so much to be alive? Everyday seems to be worse, no one wants to be around him, no one wants to be friends, Todoroki up and left him when he sat down beside him at the park and Bakugo just randomly turned against him. He has to keep going though, for his mom, for All Might, and most importantly for Kacchan.

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After he changed, he left the changing room and entered the gym to see the entire class was ready which meant they were all waiting for him. Midoriya sighs as he walks to the center where the rest of the class was waiting. Aizawa glared at him before addressing the class. “Alright class, today you'll be put into pairs. “Momo and Todoroki, Iida and Ururaka, Hagakure and Ojiro, Kirishima and Karminari, Sero and Candy, Bakugo and Midoyia, Mina and Jiro, Koda and Tsu, Tokoyami and Aoyama, and Shoji and Sato. Get into your pairs and begin.”

“Oh hell no!” Bakugo exclaims, “I'm not pairing up with the nerd!” Bakugo did in fact want to pair up with Midoriya but he knows that after seeing how Midoriya fights, he'll never be able to get up to Midoriya’s level, let alone surpass him.

“Too bad, no switching allowed,” Aizawa says, walking over to a corner of the room to sleep.

Bakugo grumbles under his breath as he glares at Midoriya, “I'm not going to go easy on you.” He knows that he wouldn't even need to go easy on Midoriya, especially with that quirk of his.

“I don't need you too,” Midoriya says, a blank look on his face as he gets into a fighting stance.

Bakugo runs at Midoriya with his signature right hook, effectively punching Midoriya in the face. Midoriya however shakes it off and activates his quirk, kicking him in the side.

They go at it for a few minutes just throwing punches and kicks at each other, however, Midoyia manages to avoid the places he knows for a fact have scars from his mother, even if Bakugo hasn't been the nicest, he still cares about him.

As the fight goes on, Bakugo raises a brow as he dodges the punches, “why is he only punching in the same three spots? That's a dumb move and Deku isn't dumb. “What are you doing?” Bakugo grunts, setting off an explosion in Midoriya's direction.

“Uh, winning?” Midoriya says, phrasing it as a question.

“No, I mean, why are you only punching in three places? Are you trying to go easy on me?”

“I don't need to go easy on you, I'm just not willing to hurt you that badly.”

“What?” He doesn't finish his question as it suddenly comes to him, none of his scars have been touched but even if they were, they wouldn't hurt, they've been there a while.” He throws another explosion at Midoriya, “they don't hurt to touch Deku, hit me anywhere!”

“I'm fully aware they don't physically hurt.” Midoriya says, as he gets hit by one of Bakugo’s explosions. Midoriya was running out of stamina and was about to fall over when he saw his chance, Bakugo was stunned by this realization. He charges his quirk up to 20% and punches Bakugo in the face. Bakugo was too slow to respond due to the news and both boys fell unconscious on the floor, letting the fight result in a tie.

Meanwhile, Kirishima and Karminari were going at it. Kirishima kept his quirk activated while dodging Karminari’s attacks. Karminari wasn't using his quirk until the end since he’s still dealing with his quirk drawback. “What are you doing after school?” Karminari asks, dodging one of Kirishima’s kicks.

“Probably going home to work out, I haven't done much since I've been in the hospital,” Kirishima replies.

“Sounds like fun,” Karminari says, letting electricity surround him.

“Do you want to come with me?” Kirishima asks, narrowing his eyes at Karminari, not sure what he's planning.

“Sure, we can make plans right after I finish this,” he says, throwing bolt after bolt of electricity. Kirishima grins and manages to dodge most of them, grunting when some of them manage to hit him.

Kirishima's quirk falls away and Karminari comes in with one more punch to his side. Kirishima loses his breath and falls to the ground, coughing. “You good man?” Karminari asks, walking over to help Kirishima up.

“Yeah, I'm good,” Kirishima grins as the two of them go to sit on the benches.

Aizawa and Present Mic had transported Bakugo and Midoyia to Recovery Girl while All Might stayed and watched over the class. “Why do I get the feeling that these two will be here often?” she grumbles.

“I don't think they need any healing, just somewhere they can rest until they wake up,” Aizawa says surveying the two teens.

“Alright, you two can go now, I know you have a whole class to watch over.”

Present Mic nods and motions for Aizawa to follow him out of the room. “How's Bakugo doing with everything?”

“I don't know, I haven't really spoken to him about the incident but from his reactions with Midoriya, it seems that he's sabotaging his friendship with him and everyone else.”

“Isn't Midoriya the only one that knows what's going on? Why would he sabotage that relationship?” Mic asks, a brow creasing.

“I'm not sure, but we should probably talk to him after he wakes up and see if he needs anything.” Aizawa says, “I want to make sure he's ok.”

Mic nods, “he deserves peace, he's just a kid after all. Anyways, Nezu wants to speak to all of us as well, he has an idea he wants to run by everyone.”

“Great…today's going to be a busy day,” Aizawa grumbles.

“Don't worry, everything will be fine,” Mic says, pressing a quick peck to Aizawa’s cheek, “I'm having Hitoshi pick up food for him and Eri since it'll be a late night, that way they aren't waiting on us.”

“I'll find a way to make it up to him,” Aizawa sighs, “I know he had plans with Monoma tonight.”

“I've already talked to him and he doesn't mind. He's just going to go out with Monoma tomorrow night, he understands.”

“I know he does, but that doesn't make it right.”

Mic grabs Aizawa's hand in his, “it's just a one time thing, don't feel too bad about it.” Aizawa sighs as they both head back towards the gym to find everyone resting, all the fights are done and they still have thirty minutes left of class.

“Do you think the boys will be awake for your class?” Aizawa asks.

Mic shrugs, “guess we'll see in thirty minutes,” he says, as they both watch the students compare notes and chat.